Malaysian police raid Putrajaya home linked to ex-premier Najib Razak

Plainclothes police officers seen leaving the residence of ex-PM Najib in this June 11 file photo.

PHOTO: The Star file/Asia News Network

PUTRAJAYA - Plainclothes police officers have left after a raid on a house in Precinct 10, believed to be in connection with the investigation on 1MDB.

The officers, from the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime department, were at the house since 1pm on Monday (June 11). The raiding team left at 3.10pm, with about five police officers left behind to guard the house.

Several boxes were removed from the house and put into a white van that bore no police credentials.

Najib's wife Rosmah Mansor arrived at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to have her statement recorded in connection with a suspicious transfer of about $10.6 million (S$14.2 million) from the former 1MDB unit SRC International.

The sum is just a fraction of the billions of dollars allegedly siphoned from 1MDB, the state fund that Najib set up, in a scandal that dogged the last three years of his near-decade-long rule and was a key reason why he was voted out in a May 9 election.

This follows a police check of six locations linked to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak here and in Putrajaya, including the Prime Minister's Office, his official residence as well as four other residences.